User:Graham Beards

I have been an editor and contributor since 8 April 2007, focusing mainly on health and biology-related articles. I have written eight articles that have appeared on the Main Page asTodays' Featured Article.I was aFeatured Article Candidates'Delegate for four years from 2012 to 2014 and I promoted 502 articles to FA status. In real life, I am aNational Health Servicemicrobiologist. My research papers are listed onPubMedhere:[1]"Rotavirus vaccination has saved hundreds of thousands of children’s lives from diarrhea"[2]

Featured Article Save Award

On behalf of theFAR coordinators,thank you, Graham Beards! Your work onMenstrual cyclehas allowed the article to retain itsfeatured status,recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers,Nikkimaria(talk) 03:58, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

If you contribute to Wikipedia, be prepared to be plagiarised

The Historical/Evolutionary Cause and Possible Treatment of Pandemic COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, 2019-CORONA VIRUS): World-War III: The Blackout of the Modern World by Neglected Small Infectious Agent

And not only by schoolchildren. This "publication" is copied from several of our articles includingSocial history of viruses,Introduction to virusesandInfluenza.

The most unhelpful comment I have ever received from a FAC reviewer

Can I be the writing instructor that I am in real life and ask you to try harder?

Here's some excellent advice

Achieving excellence through featured content

List of Featured Article Candidates I have promoted

An image created by you has been promoted tofeatured picturestatus Your image,File:Phage.jpg,was nominated onWikipedia:Featured picture candidates,gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so atWikipedia:Featured picture candidates.Thank you for your contribution!ArmbrustTheHomunculus14:36, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Some of my other images

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  Rotaviruses
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  Demonstratingthe wave-like behaviour of photons (in my kitchen)
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  Neisseria gonorrhoeaein pus from a case of gonorrhoea in a man
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  Neisseria gonorrhoeae and pus cells in a Gram-stained penile discharge
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  Gram stained pus from a urethral discharge with intracellular Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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  Trichomonas vaginalis(Gram stain)
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  A typical case ofaerobic vaginitis(Gram stain)
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  Aerobic vaginitis; appearance by phase contrast microscopy
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  Ring forms ofPlasmodium falciparumin red blood cells
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  A malarial parasite, probablyPlasmodium vivax,in a red blood cell
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  Ziehl–Neelsen stainofMycobacterium tuberculosis
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  A Giemsa-stained blood film from a person withiron-deficiency anemia.This person also had hemoglobin Kenya.
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  A Giemsa-stained blood film from a person withiron-deficiency anemia(lower magnification)
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  Blood from a person withbeta thalassemia
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  Whole blood with microfilaria worm, Giemsa stain, from a person withLoa loa
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  Electron micrograph of aherpesvirus
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  Bacillus subtilisGram stain
• Trichomonas vaginalis byphase-contrast microscopy
• Trichomonas vaginalis byphase-contrast microscopy
• Trichomonas vaginalis byphase-contrast microscopysingletrophozoite
• Trichomonas vaginalis from a human vagina x 400
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  Trichomonas vaginalisMay-Grünwald staining
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  Trichomonas vaginalis May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining. A barb-likeaxostyle(left) projects opposite the four-flagella bundle.
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  Trichomonas May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining
• Pthirus pubis,crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood.
• Crab louse
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  Monocytes,a type of white blood cell involved in immunity
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  Electron micrograph ofadenovirusandadeno-associated virus
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  Papilloma virus
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  Red blood cells insickle cell anaemia
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  Candida albicansGram stain
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  Candida albicansGram stain
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  Candida spores in a vaginal swab. (Gram stain)
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  Spores and pseudohyphae of Candida albicans in a vaginal swab (Gram stain)
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  Vaginal swab wet mount ofCandida albicans(phase contrast)
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  Gram-stained pus from a urethral discharge showing Gram-negative, intracellular diplococci
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  The bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae in pus (Gram stain)
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  Another case of gonorrhoea (Gram-stain)
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  Giantplateletsin a person with immune thrombocytopenia pupura. (Blood film Giemsa stain)
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  Agar diffusionantibiotic sensitivity testing
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  Antibiotic resistance tests:Bacteria are streaked on dishes with white disks, each impregnated with a different antibiotic.
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  Electron micrograph of EDIM - therotavirusthat infects mice
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  Orfvirus
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  Electron micrograph of three cowpox virus particles
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  Smallpox virus
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  Mumps virus
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  A plantrhabdovirus
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  Bacteriophages
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  Adenoviruses
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  A computer reconstruction based on cryo-electron micrographs of a rotavirus particle (A) and a rotavirus particle reacted with a monoclonal antibody (B)
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  Gram stain oflactobacilliand squamous epithelial cells in vaginal swab
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  Gram stain showing normal flora and the bacteria seen inbacterial vaginosis
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  Gram-stain of Gram-positivestreptococcisurrounded by pus cells from and infected cut on a finger
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  Phase contrast microscopy ofclue cellsin a vaginal swab
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  Trypanosoma cruziin blood Giemsa stain
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  Coronaviruses
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  AKleihauer–Betke testused to measure the amount of fetal hemoglobin transferred from a fetus to a mother's bloodstream.
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  Noroviruses
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  Caesium chloride (CsCl) solution and two morphological types ofrotavirus.Following centrifugation at 100g a density gradient forms in the CsCl solution and the virus particles separate according to their densities. The tube is 10cm tall. The viruses are the two "milky" zones close together.
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  Neutrophils,a type of white blood cell
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  Cryptococcus neoformansa pathogenic yeast
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  Horsetorovirus
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  A culture ofsalmonellabacteria
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  Torovirus in human faeces
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  Electron micrograph ofmolluscum contagiosum virus
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  Scanning electron micrograph ofActinomyces israelii(false colour)
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  Electron micrograph ofParvovirus B19
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  Haemophilus influenzaerequiresXandVfactors for growth. In this culture,Haemophilushas only grown around the paper disc that has been impregnated with X and V factors. No bacterial growth is seen around the discs that only contain either X or V factor.
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  The cytophathic effect ofVaricella zoster viruson cells in cultures
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  Red blood cells as seen by darkfield microscopy x 1000
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  Blood coagulation pathwaysin vivoshowing the central role played by thrombin
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  Ward were thelast case of smallpoxwas seen in Birmingham, UK
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  Ward were thelast case of smallpoxwas seen in Birmingham, UK
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  Mpoxlesions on a penis
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  The tongue of a child showing the signs of scarlet fever caused by Lancefield group A streptococci
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  Staphylococcus aureus(Gram stain
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  Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria in a pus cell
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  Plateletsin human blood
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  Gram stain of a vaginal swab showing gonococci (in pairs - arrow) inside polymorphonuclear granulocytes

	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bringMenstrual cycle(estimated annual readership:718,200) toFeatured Articlestatus, I hereby present you theHalf Million Award.Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers!SandyGeorgia(Talk) 01:41, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

		The Million Award
		For your contributions to bringVirus(estimated annual readership: 1,453,000) toFeatured Articlestatus, I hereby present you theMillion Award.Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. --Khazar2(talk) 12:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Abacteriophageis avirusthat infects and replicates withinbacteriaandarchaea.Bacteriophages are among the most common and diverse entities in thebiosphere,found wherever bacteria are present. Early evidence of their existence came when the English bacteriologistErnest Hanbury Hankinreported in 1896 that something in the waters of theGangesandYamunarivers in India had a markedantibacterialaction againstcholera,but was so minute that it could pass through a very fine porcelain filter.

This picture is atransmission electron micrographat approximately 200,000× magnification, showing numerous bacteriophages attached to the exterior of a bacterium'scell wall.Photograph credit:Graham Beards

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